Queues outside stores including Primark, Zara and Uniqlo as well as Selfridges and John Lewis

Shoppers surged back to high streets across England on Monday as fashion stores, toy shops, hairdressers and other non-essential retailers reopened their doors for the first time in more than three months.

The number of people out and about more than tripled compared with the previous Monday and was only just less than 15% lower than 2019 levels.

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